CELL BIOLOGY

Faculty Research Interests

  
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    Cytoskeletal Components and Cellular Locomotion
James Bartles, PhD The Espin family of actin-bundling proteins
Lester Binder, PhD The role of the cytoskeleton in neurodegeneration
Rex Chisholm, PhD Molecular Motors and Cell Motility
Vladimir Gelfand, PhD Cytoskeleton, microtubules, and intracellular transport
Robert Goldman, PhD Structure and function of intermediate filaments
Thomas Hope, PhD Cell biology of HIV
Liming Li, PhD Structural properties of prion proteins
Puneet Opal, PhD Cellular basis of neurodegeneration
Sarah Rice, PhD Functions of molecular motor tails
Karla Fullner Satchell, PhD Vibrio cholerae RTX toxin and host-pathogen interactions
Greg Smith, PhD Herpesvirus transport in the nervous system
Jane Wu, MD, PhD Molecular mechanisms regulating cell migration
    Cell to Cell and Cell to Matrix Interactions
Spiro Getsios, PhD Cell-cell adhesion and communication in development and disease
Cara Gottardi, PhD Roles for catenins and cadherins in cell adhesion
Kathleen Green, PhD Assembly, function and signaling through intercellular junctions
Jonathan Jones, PhD Functional analyses of cell-matrix interactions
Geoffrey Kansas, PhD Molecular biology of leukocyte adhesion and migration
William A. Muller, MD, PhD Leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions in inflammation
Sergey M. Troyanovsky, PhD Assembly of cell-cell adhesion structures
    Nuclear Organization, Dynamics and Functions
Sui Huang, PhD Function of perinucleolar compartment in cancer cells
Steven Kosak, PhD Nuclear Self-Organization and Telomere Homeostasis
Janardan Reddy, MD Nuclear Receptors and Co-activators
Richard Scarpulla, PhD Transcriptional mechanisms of nucleo-mitochondrial interaction in mammalian cells
Tom Volpe, PhD Heterochromatin formation in eukaryotes
    Signal Transduction and Cellular Differentiation
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD Role of mitochondria in ischemic heart disease and cell death
Daniel Batlle MD Cellular Defects in Hypertension and Diabetes
Irina V. Budunova, MD, PhD Cell signaling and intercellular communications in skin tumorigenesis and development
Navdeep Chandel, PhD Tumor Cell Responses to Oxygen Deprivation
Anjen Chenn, MD, PhD Regulation of Cell Fate and Proliferation in Mammalian CNS
Joan Cook-Mills, PhD VCAM-1 and endothelial cell intracellular signals
Vincent Cryns, MD Caspase Signaling in Apoptosis
David Engman, MD, PhD Molecular Parasitology and Cardiology
Adriana Ferreira, MD, PhD Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurite elongation in central neurons
Ann Harris, PhD Regulation of CFTR gene expression; mucin glycobiology
J. Julie Kim, PhD Molecular events in the endometrium during early pregnancy, endometriosis and endometrial cancer
Raj Kishore, PhD Roles of inflammatory cytokines, stem cells, and alcohol consumption in heart disease
William Lowe, Jr., MD Diabetes, Vascular Cells and Genetics
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD Estrogen and androgen actions in diabetes and obesity
Brian Mitchell, PhD Basal body duplication and the generation of cilia planar polarity
Murali Prakriya, PhD Calcium signaling mechanisms in health and disease
Vijay Sarthy, PhD Gene regulation, development and functional organization of the vertebrate retina
H. William Schnaper, MD Signal Transduction in Atherosclerosis and Renal Scarring
Hans-Georg Simon, PhD Development and regenerative repair of vertebrate limbs and heart
Paul Stein, PhD Src family kinases in lymphoid cell development and epithelial cell differentiation
Jacob Sznajder, MD Mediators and mechanisms of acute lung injury - regulation of Na,K-ATPase in the alveolar epithelium
Warren Tourtellotte, MD, PhD Transcriptional regulation of cell differentiation
Linda Van Eldik, PhD Brain inflammation, glial biology, and neurodegenerative disorders
John Varga, MD TGF-ß and the Pathogenesis of Fibrosis
Robert Vassar, PhD Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease
D. Martin Watterson, PhD Signal Transduction, Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Eugene Xu, PhD Regulators of germ cell development in Drosophila and mice
Ming Zhang, PhD Molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis

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